Emulab Installation Requirements

[ccnp...@gmail.com]

Hi Folks,

I am planning to install Emulab. I am trying to find out the HW and SW requirements to start. I have checked the wiki/documentation https://wiki.emulab.net/wiki/Emulab/wiki/HWRecommend and I have a few questions.

1. Is FreeBSD the only supported software to install emulab? Can I install Emulab on Ubuntu, Redhat or Centos?

2. Document states that Memory recommendation is at least 512MB, and preferably 1-2GB. Is it correct that it only requirements this much memory to install emulab or more Memory is needed?

Appreciate your response.

Thank you.

Ace

[Leigh Stoller]

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> I am planning to install Emulab. I am trying to find out the HW and SW requirements to start. I have checked the wiki/documentation https://wiki.emulab.net/wiki/Emulab/wiki/HWRecommend and I have a few questions.

Hi, that page is really out of date, sorry about that. You can see the kind
of hardware we currently run here: https://wiki.emulab.net/Emulab/wiki/UtahHardware

> 1. Is FreeBSD the only supported software to install emulab? Can I install
> Emulab on Ubuntu, Redhat or Centos?

FreeBSD only on the boss and ops/fs servers.

> 2. Document states that Memory recommendation is at least 512MB, and preferably 1-2GB. Is it correct that it only requirements this much memory to install emulab or more Memory is needed?

Skip down to the servers section on the page I mention above. Its also
a bit out of date, but much closer to what we run now. These days
you want more like 8GB …

Leigh
ps: installing Emulab is extremely time consuming and difficult, you need to
have a lot of systems experience (for example, you will have to configure
sendmail on BSD). We have limited time to help these days, we are super busy.
Just FYI.

[ccnp...@gmail.com]

Hi Leigh, Thank you for the response and for the warning :)

Is there any alternative software that works like Emulab?

Regards,

Ace